You know it's serious when a Yugoslavian gives up smoking for a week

To understand we need to rewind, James Naismith invented basketball in 1891.

This game has a cult status here in Serbia. It's the most famous game ever here

I’m actually looking forward to this one because I don’t know what happens

Stojaković (along with Divac) was the most known player (to the US/International fans) but Bodiroga was actually heart and soul of that team.

As a Greek basketball fan and also a fan of your channel, this video represents the American perspective on international policy perfectly. You have no idea how much it meant for the Balkan people to watch serbians defeat the team representing the country that bombed them for 2 years

Yugoslavia had also been bombed by the USA in 1999, so this was much more than just a game for us!

Came for basketball Stayed for the Yugoslavian politics lesson

Stojakovic, as much a great player as he was, was not Yugoslavia'd star. It was Bodiroga.

Funny thing about Gurovic guy: everyone in the team were pissing him off about some interview that Reggie “gave” saying that he has no idea who is Milan Gurovic. They got into his head so much that he played intense defense on Reggie and scored three 3pt shots in 4th quarter, including the one in the last minute, he started screaming at his teammates “WHERE’S THIS REGGIE MILLER NOW?”... one of the best hot head stories, for sure. 🤣🤣🤣

This Yugoslavia was only Serbs, it is bassicly Serbia and Montenegro just keep the name Yugoslavia, after few years change name in Serbia

Can't believe you pronounced Divac correctly

I'm Greek and I just love the fact you used the coverage from our national TV!!! (ET1 - Elliniki Tileorasi Ena)

Went to peja and vlades basket ball camp in 2005. Great people. Peja will always be my favorite. 16 always

I am Serbian and moved to the US in 1998- Vlade and Peja were my idols, legends, everything in one (cried every year kings would get kicked out of the playoffs). I remember this game like it was yesterday and two/ three days later we drove to Indianapolis to watch that (another epic) final against Argentina. We turned Indianapolis into Belgrade that afternoon.

That footage of ET1.. Confirms that the Greeks have always supported the Yugoslavian team.

Have you guys ever considered doing the controversial Gold Medal Game from the 1972 Summer Olympics?

I love that you guys show this now when FIBA World Cup is about to start and US team in the same boat as the 2002 squad. Stars begging off the squad and all. History repeating itself and all the good stuff that comes with it!! =)

"Zidane's header vs Materazzi deserves deep rewind"

Hoolllyyy crap! I can’t believe you guys did this video! I’m Serbian and I remember seeing this game when I was 11! We were watching it until like 6am! And everyone went mental afterwards! And then that incredible final against Argentina! Love your channel but never expected to see this here.

They may have been called Yugoslavia, but it was Serbia. All the important players were Serbs.

You mentioned that infamous Kings-Lakers WCF, and now I want a rewinder on how the refs stole that series out of the Kings' hands and personally made sure the Lakers could make the finals

How about a rewinder of the 2006 Fiba World Championship semi between USA and Greece?

Without braking of big Yugoslavia people would watch the dream team of Yugoslavia vs. the dream team of U.S.A. in Barcelona 1992. It's a shame that it never happened...

As a Greek myself, it is almost laughable how many Greek-themed elements are on this video. Apart from the Greek commentary which is already been mentioned by a few comments, we have: -The 1998 World Championships which took place in Greece -The 1995 EuroBasket which was also held in Greece -The two biggest stars of that Yugoslav team had essentially written history by playing for Greek clubs. Dejan Bodiroga is still regarded one of the greatest players to play for Panathinaikos Athens and he was a key figure to two Euroleague victories in 2000 at Thessaloniki and especially in 2002 in Bologna against a powerful home team of Kinder featuring among others Manu Ginobili. Whereas Peja Stojakovic was the absolut king of PAOK Thessaloniki from 1993 until he flew to the States in 1998. He's especially known for an amazing killer 3-point buzzer against Olympiacos Piraeus in the deciding semi-final leg for the '98 Greek Championships. He's acquired full Greek citizenship from early age, he's married to a former Greek model and he still considers himself as a "honorary Thessaloniki citizen". -Another two Serbian players of that squad would go on and play for Panathinaikos winning many titles, including a famous treble (Greek Championships, Greek Cup and Euroleague) in 2007. Dejan Tomasevic and Milos Vujanic. -And finally, the most little known fact, one of this USA squad played again for Panathinaikos. From 1990 until '92, Antonio Davis decided to come to Europe and Greece right after being drafted by the Pacers and he showed some glimpses of his talent before having a stint at Milan and kicking off his NBA career.

Jarić, Tomašević, Bodiroga and Ginobili were members of 2001-02 All-Euroleague team. USA also lost to up and coming Spain in game for 5th place.

Yugoslavian team was preparing for 1992 Olympics. When they found out they weren't allowed to participate, they were devastated. Considering 1994 World Cup was supposed to be hosted in Belgrade, 1995 Eurobasket has a special place in history as a triumphant comeback. Funny thing is that it almost didn't happen as Bulgaria almost shocked them in qualifiers. Belgrade Arena was eventually built and hosted 2005 Eurobasket, which was disaster for hosts. Team in disarray lost to young France.

12:21 - Argentina rocking the Stranger Things font before it was cool

Even though I'm American I'm happy for the Yugoslavians here. Nobody in the U.S. would remember this game today or even care about it back then if the Americans had won. We hardly even care about the Olympics let alone the FIBA World Cup. But in Serbia & Montenegro people still talk about this game with pride because it gave them a moment of joy and national unity after ten very difficult years for their people. They earned this one.

On behalf of all tennis fans, do Djokovic v. Federer 2011 US Open, and "the shot"

and Bodiroga was the best player on that Yugoslavian team and probably the best in that Tournament

The USA team wasn't bad at all as you try to make it look like. Andre Miller was in the first rookie team some years prior to 2002 and the assist leader in 2002. Reggie Miller was an older player but still in the NBA and had a decent ppg in 2001 and 2002 season, one of the best shooters of all time. Paul Pierce is a HoF now, back in 2001 and 2002 he was having 26ppg seasons. Jermaine O'Neal was the most improved player in 2002 and an All Star player, he had an average of 20ppg in 2001-2002 and 2002-2003. Antonio Davis was a veteran with 14ppg in those two seasons when the World Championship was played 2001-2002. Ben Wallace was one of the best defensive players of his generation, won the Defensive player of the year 2002 and was also the block and rebound leader that same year, the man is basically a good HoF potential. Baron Davis was having an 18 and 17 ppg season in 2001-2002 and 2002-2003 and he had his prime stats just a year after that in the 2003-2004 season, a good player. This team went up against Stojakovic that had a 21ppg and 19ppg in the 2 season around this tournament and Divac who had an 11ppg seasons more or less. On paper the USA team should have still won a medal.

Do Tracy Porter’s pick 6 in the super bowl to clinch the Saints first super bowl win against the Colts

The greek commentary in the video is the real highlight

Joe Carter's walk off home run in game 6 of the 1993 world series deserves a rewind.

I saw a picture of the current NBA players like Jokic, Doncic, Nurkic, Dragic, Zubac, Marjanovic, and others from the former Yugoslav countries hanging out with each other in the bubble a few days ago, and I really can't help but think... If Yugoslavia didn't break up, the team would've been scary and a serious contender for a gold medal along with USA.

If yugoslavia was still here best players would be nikola jokic jusuf nurkic both bogdanovicis nemanja bjelica saric marjanovic hezonja teodosic doncic dragic vucevic zubac zizic and manx more players that play in europe that are very very good

The friendship between Petrovic and Divac sums up pretty well what the heck was going on in the Balkans. Check out the ESPN 30 for 30 documentary.

Budiroga was a top player in Europe back then, absolute monster. To mention only his one dribble move is a travesty.

Thank you, man. I was waiting for this! Finally a video about my country!

I just realized that Yugoslavia team also had Vladimir Radmanovic, Marko Jaric and Zarko Cabarkapa.

Απίστευτο, συγκλονιστικό, συναρπαστικό, γκρανγκινιολικό και χιτσκοκικό φινάλε!

These rewinders are always the highlight of my day, always interesting content, showing highlights, ans illuminating important and sometimes forgotten moments in history

Very professional analyse ! Top work !

We NEED a rewind on Vince Carter's Olympic "dunk of death"

Legit happy for the archival efforts of Greek TV. Most TV footage is from the Greek nationalized channel.

Thank you for making this!

Great video! Do rewinders on Cricket World Cup 1983 final and the Cricket T20 World Cup 2007 final next!

This will probably happen again this year since the best player on Team USA is Kemba Walker

Thanks for the video - great one! Also, you could have mentioned that the guys from Serbia and Montenegro were extra motivated because of the NATO (lead by USA) bombing of Serbia 3 years prior. It was poetic justice winning against the USA on their home court in front of their fans, and later winning the entire championship :)

Nice you finally did a rewind!!!!

Jesse Owens's 1936 Olympics feat deserves a deep rewind.

Great, now can you rewind to Manu Ginóbili miracle shot against Yugoslavia in 2004?

Please do 1994 missed penalty by Baggio in the World Cup

Great ep

I like it when y'all do deep cut moments like this.

How many are watching this after the USA lost to France in this year's FIBA Basketball World Cup?

I remember how much pride we had in our team when New Zealand finished 4th at this world cup.

Fitting that you put this up now, considering the B-team we have sent to the upcoming FIBA World games this time around.

I've followed Rewind series for some time now, but as a Serbian this was the first topic that was about something related to my country. You did a great job explaining. Also, quite an interesting timing for this video to drop, since the 2019 FIBA World Cup is just about to start, and the Team USA is once again left with its 4th strongest team, while Serbia is one of its main contenders. Oddly enough, Yugoslavia's best 2 players were passing center Divac and shooter Stojakovic, while the current Serbia's main 2 players are passing center Jokic and shooter Bogdanovic. Also, tiny correction: Captions at 9:07: it's "Slovenian", not "Slavonian", he said it right, but CC didn't spell it good. Slavonia is a region in Croatia, Slovenia is a former Yugoslav Republic (and later an independent country).

I can't stress to kids today how insane that '92 team was still have my Robinson jersey from that

Evgeny Kuznetsov's OT series winner against the dreaded Penguins in the 2018 Stanley Cup Playoffs... it's got all the drama a rewinder needs!!

this was a really cool video

Great video... I've watched the game at 3 AM in the morning and then went on celebrating on the city's central square at 5 AM... I was young, enthusiastic about basketball and had my second baby born a couple of months before... I truly had the sense of living history.

Wow I'd never heard of this Tiger Woods 2005 Masters chip in or Christian Laettner. Thank y'all.

Yugoslavia - 5 times World champion

I love this series so much

most sweet victory ever! Hvala momci!!!

30 for 30 how Yugoslavia won the 2002 World Cup

If everybody came to play... 2002 Team USA Shaquille O'Neal Tim Duncan Vince Carter Kobe Bryant Jason Kidd Gary Payton Allen Iverson Tracy McGrady Kevin Garnett Alonzo Mourning Chris Webber Steve Francis

loved bodiroga and his bank shot free throw shooting back then. also a few years from now we'll see a rewinder focused on the 2019 fiba world cup, where the stars withdraw again, and already lost to Australia before the tournament.

never seen your vids before but yeah pretty informative lol. but i need to say wow have not seen a vhs rewinder car in YEARS!!! lol.

Rewinder, on the Blackout Super Bowl 47

Oh man I remember I was watching that game at the public scare at the big video beam wall with the bunch of people and it was middle of the night in Belgrade, and I was 21 at the time 🙂

Awesome video, love these, but why do you keep saying "this season" when you mean 2002? Very confusing.

That "rimmed out Lithuanian buzzerbeater"... That was tough. 2004 game in the Olympics was phenomenal, though. Do Jasikevicius' takeover vs team USA in 2004 group stage game!

I think a united Yugoslavian squad could actually win against the USA again. At least under FIBA rules and maybe in a few years time. Jokic, Doncic, Nurkic, Dragic, Saric, Teodosic and so on that's a very talented young nucleus.

You should do "the creation of SB nation deserves a deep rewind"

I'm from Greece thanks for the commentating!!!! 🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷

Ginobli!!!!!!! I have been saying this since that tournament . And had just moved to San Antonio in July 2002. Perfect timing for the Spurs run.

It’s May 2, 2014, inside the Moda Center at the Rose Quarter in Portland, Oregon. This is Game 6 of the First Round of the NBA playoffs, a battle between the Houston Rockets and the Portland Trailblazers. Behind in the series 3-2, the Rockets have created a chance to head back home for Game 7 with a Chandler Parsons go ahead bucket, a clutch shot which has only left 0.9 seconds on the clock. Clutch...hm. Portland fans haven’t seen their team in the second round of the playoffs since Bill Clinton was president in 2000, and this is the closest they’ve gotten since. This has to happen, even if it takes a miracle. Now, the Blazers stand at home with enough time for one more shot, but there is little hope inside the arena. Nicolas Batum stands beside the ref waiting to inbound in front of the 22,204 fans in attendance, and the millions watching live on ESPN. Let’s recap: Game 6, a Chandler Parsons go ahead bucket, 0.9 seconds, 22,204 fans, and just one more play. The stakes are high, but former NBA Rookie of the Year Damian Lillard appears relaxed, standing idle beside Parsons, the man who may have just won the game. Whistle blows, ref points at the floor, and the ball lands in Batum’s hands. Lillard bolts, Parsons loses him, Dame demands the ball, gets it, and fires away. “It’s Lillard, he got the shot off...” A hovering, slow motion silence fills the arena for 0.9 seconds, some might think this is looking a lot like Brandon Roy’s Blazer’s game winner in 2008, wasn’t that against the Rockets too? The silence is abruptly interrupted by the buzzer, and swish, absolutely perfect, crowd erupts, that’s the series. Hm...clutch. Parsons knows it, the fans know it, and Lillard’s known it since he was just a kid. Yes, he actually just did that. Who’s next?

The Bodiroga whip or El Lastigo (how its called in europe) or ShamGod how u call it in USA, was one of his signature moves. Sold it to lots of players but the most impresive one was against Melo a few years later in a friendly game in Belgrade He was a true european superstar..

I was 7 years old when I watched this World Cup. At the time, of course, I couldn’t realize what I was watching. Guys like Dirk, Divac, Peja, Manu, Scola, Oberto, Pierce, Reggie Miller... That’s basketball history out there, man

Its hard to explain what makes Serbs so good in sports. Its a small country of 6-7 million people only, and yet successful and often dominant in pretty much every collective sport that is played around here. At some years Serbia was European champion simultaneously in basketball, volleyball, water polo, in other years both men and women's national team would be champions of Europe in some sports, youth teams winning euro and world cups in football, basketball, volleyball, long history of success in handball although lately that sport is in decline, and all that in conditions of poverty and total lack of financing for sports.Even in individual sports we get people like Djokovic in tennis, swimmers, shooters etc. What can be the reason? Its genetically tall people, like dutch, or nordic people, but not anemic from cold climate. Its passionate people similar to mediteranean nations Italy, Spain, Greece, but much taller and stronger on average. There is strong tribal, collective spirit, unlike modern artificial nations, and more alike to old tribes and people of europe from barbarian times and collective identity. There is huge love of sports, bad living conditions where sport is often way to progress in life, spite and pride and desire to win, but still this all cant explain it.

Just imagine the players from today's Serbia, Croatia, BiH, Montenegro, Macedonia and Sovenia playing together now as a national team like during the days of Yugoslavia - almost unstoppable!!!

We need a rewind on the 2006 game vs Greece!

This Rewinder deserves a second part, the Argentina vs Yugoslavia in the Olympics 2004, which it’s a rematch of this tournament finals

That video is inspired by current situation in pre World Cup between Serbia and USA

Nobody: Charles Barkley: GINOBILIIIIIIIIIIIIII!!

We need a rewinder on the 2010 mens hockey olympic gold medal final in Vancouver

cool and niche episode

Next episode rewinder of Barcelonas comeback against PSG in the champions league

The Phoenix Suns definitely deserve to be the next collapse episode...

Excellent choice, for a REW!

I Like all of you but nothing beats a rewind video with Seth ♥️

Do one for one of the most legendary finals in Euroleague history in '92 when the Serbian "Partizan" played against Spanish "Juventud". Its great because it also (like this video) would have a lot of background since Partizan didnt play in Serbia the entire season since the war ha begun

The 2002-2004 Argentina national team is one of the greatest basketball teams ever assembled in international competitions. Shame they lost unbelievably to Yugoslavia (also a great team) in the WC Finals. They got their revenge in Athens 2004, tho.

Legitimately had no idea how this was gonna end so this made the video even more interesting and entertaining.

I was still very young when this happened but I vividly remember my Dad celebrating this.

As a rule, I always root for upsets in international basketball. I don't think that makes you a bad American. I just recognize that even with a lesser roster, we're still prohibitive favorites, and seeing somebody else win is a better outcome.